Community Garden Post No. 82 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States was to be presented with a stand of colors and was to rename the P##t the Private Jacob Levy Post No. 82 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. This is in honor of Private Jacob Levy of New York City, a member of Company E, 307th Infantry, 77th Division, who was killed at Fismes, Franie, on the Aisne-###rne Front on September 14, 1918.
The stand of colors was to be presented by Private Levy’s father at 8:30 Saturday evening at Emanuel Synagogue, 1310 Elder avenue, The Bronx.
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